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Das (Hindi: दास, Urdu: داس, Punjabi: ਦਾਸ داس, Bengali: দাস / দাশ, Assamese: দাস) is a common Hindu and Sikh surname/last name in India and Bangladesh. In India, the surname is common among the people of the North and East. They generally belong to the Brahmin caste in Punjab, the Baidya or Kayastha castes in Bihar[citation needed] and Bengal, to Rajputs, Kayastha, or a variety of upper castes in Orissa[citation needed] and Vaishnavites or followers of Srimanta Sankardeva in Assam.[citation needed] The surname is also found amongst the Dutch of Holland.
[edit] Notable people with the surname Das
- Amar Das, the third of the Ten Gurus of Sikhism
- Amil Kumar Das
- Ananta Das Babaji
- Beni Madhab Das
- Bhagavan Das, Urdu poet
- Bina Das
- Brojen Das
- Chittaranjan Das, a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement
- Dinesh Das, a Bengali poet residing in Calcutta
- Bhai Dyal Das, Sikh martyr
- Durga Mohan Das
- Gardhab Das, fictional character
- Gobindachandra Das
- Gurcharan Das, a Punjabi columnist for The Times of India
- Jibanananda Das, a Bengali poet
- Kamala Das
- Khagen Das
- Krishna Das
- Bhai Mati Das, Sikh martyr
- Guru Ram Das, the fourth of the Sikh gurus
- Ranjan Das
- Pasupati Das
- Bhai Sati Das, Sikh martyr
- Satish Ranjan Das
- Seth Govind Das
- Shiv Sundar Das
- Shomie Das, schoolmaster
- Sumi Das, reporter for MSNBC and CNN
- Sudhi Ranjan Das
- Surya Das
- Vasundhara Das, Indian actress and singer
- Veena Das
- Yesudas, Great South Indian movie singer
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